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"A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?"
"The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds."
"Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet."
"Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them."
"Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!"
"You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!"
"And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!"
"Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty."
"What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it."
"The hour-hand of life."
"Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god."
"I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —"
"Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards."
"The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann."
"Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions."
"Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance."
"A married philosopher belongs to comedy."
"And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant."
"The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear."
"The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality."